Menopause triggers metabolic changes in brain that may promote…
Credit: WCM Menopause causes metabolic changes in the brain that may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, a team from Weill Cornell Medicine and the...
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Study: Medications alone don’t help smokers quit
Credit: UC San Diego Health Pharmaceutical interventions are routinely prescribed to help people quit smoking. However, a new study by University of California San Diego...
Congenital Zika virus program at Children’s National Health…
Washington, DC – (July 26, 2016) – Federal health officials continue to investigate the first possible cases of domestic Zika virus transmission in Florida. In...
Children’s National urologist receives NIH R01 grant
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON – Children's National Health System Urologist Michael Hsieh, M.D., was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to...
Study: For older women, every movement matters
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Folding your laundry or doing the dishes might not be the most enjoyable parts of your day. But simple activities like these...
Relationship found between HIV risk and individual and community level educational status
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (September 18, 2017) – African-American men who have sex with men (MSM) remain at heightened risk for HIV infection and account...
Study may improve strategies for reducing nutrient runoff into Mississippi River
Credit: Janith Chandrasoma URBANA, Ill. – Every summer, the Gulf of Mexico is flooded with excess nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater treatment plants and farm...
High doses of vitamin D rapidly reduce arterial stiffness
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 2, 2018) – In just four months, high-doses of vitamin D reduce arterial stiffness in...
Vascular bypass grafting: A biomimetic engineering approach
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering/Jonathan Vande Geest PITTSBURGH (January 23, 2018) … When a patient with heart disease is in need of a vascular graft...
Phase III clinical trials for stem cell-based cartilage regeneration…
Credit: Osaka University A group of researchers at Osaka University developed a synthetic tissue using synovium-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) for treating damaged cartilage, which...
Poor air quality increases patients’ risk of heart attack, new study finds
People with heart disease face an increased risk of a serious heart attack during poor air quality days, according to a major new study presented...
Will immunotherapy add value to chemotherapy for HER-2 positive…
The prognosis for patients with gastric cancer is poor. In western countries even patients with localized gastric or gastro-esophageal junction adenocarcinoma are faced with 5-year...
Defining optimal opioid pain medication prescription length following surgery
Credit: Scully et al. JAMA Surgery Sept. 2017 Boston, MA–A new study led by researchers at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham...
New research on the muscles of elite athletes: When quality is better…
Credit: Hans-Christer Holmberg, Mid Sweden University and Joachim Nielsen, University of Southern Denmark We can all recognise that feeling of muscle fatigue after taking a...
Forecasting the path of breast cancer in a patient
USC researchers have developed a mathematical model to forecast metastatic breast cancer survival rates using techniques usually reserved for weather prediction, financial forecasting and surfing...